The US and UK’s complicity in torture and detention practices has once again come under the spotlight amid revelations of the systematic abuses and preventable deaths of detainees in northeast Syria. Following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria a harrowing system of arbitrary and indefinite detention has emerged, overseen by the region’s autonomous authorities, notably the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), key partners of the US-led coalition against IS. According to Amnesty International, “the US government has played a central role in the creation and maintenance of this…